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Steve King should resign for the good of Iowa
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 15, 2019 05:30pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Carol Hunter, Kathie Obradovich, Andie Dominick, Richard Doak and Rox Laird |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 15, 2019 10:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Congressman Steve King should resign. He has lost even the potential to effectively represent his Iowa constituents because of his abhorrent comments about white nationalism and white supremacy.
The move by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to strip King of his committee assignments leaves Iowa without a seat on the vital House Agriculture Committee, as well as judiciary. It also leaves King with far less opportunity to work for his constituents on critically important rural development issues.
Not that King has seemed particularly interested in working for his district in recent years. Instead of holding town-hall meetings with his constituents, King spent many congressional breaks globe-trotting to Europe and hobnobbing with hard-right, nationalist leaders.These meetings apparently served to reinforce his own warped views of cultural purity and immigration.
King has often made Iowa a laughing stock on the national stage with his offensive and absurd remarks about undocumented immigrants, comparing them to dogs or disparaging them as drug mules with calves the size of cantaloupes. |
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